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Saturday, March 15, 2014

Aspies--Still Vulnerable to Abuse

Cruel, deranged abuser, Lauren Bush...may she rot in prison.

When it comes to abuse of autistic people, one could say
2014 is shaping up to be a banner year. Just this week two teen age girls in
Maryland (ages 15 and 17) were arrested for what can only be described as
heinous acts against a 16 year-old boy with autism. Lauren Bush, the 17
year-old) is being charged as an adult and I can only hope this means she will
spend enough years in prison to prevent her from being able to procreate.

These girls give psychopaths a bad name...

This two teens tortured the autistic boy with a knife,
kicked him in the groin, pulled him around by his hair and made him walk across
a frozen pond and refused to help him to get out of the freezing water when he
fell in several times.Most shocking,
however, was that they forced him to masturbate and then copulate with the
family pet.

Like many other sadistic bullies, these brainiacs saw fit to
record themselves engaging in these despicable acts so there is no doubt of
their guilt.

Some people so enjoy brutalizing others, they like to film it to watch over again...

The boy in this case—the victim--believes himself to be
friends with these monsters. Contacted by The Washington Post, his mother
reports, “He doesn’t appear to be traumatized. He thinks these girls are his
friends and is surprised the police are involved.”

The boy has been identified as autistic, and of course there
is a large range of functionality on the autism spectrum. I am assuming he has
Asperger’s, based on reading he has a driver’s permit.Although Aspies can excel academically, they
frequently have crippling social impairments, as appears to be the case with
this boy. That the boy thought these girls were his friends speaks volumes
about the lack of understanding of appropriate social behavior many autistics
experience.

An individual with Asperger’s can be very
high-functioning—in some cases their intellectual gifts allow them to
compensate for their social deficits and appear “normal”, perhaps memorizing
appropriate social responses. The boy in this case was said have gotten good
grades and functioned well enough that he was trusted by his mother to make his
way to and from school on his own.

High-funtioning Aspies can appear "normal"

An appearance of “normalcy”—or perhaps even superior
academic performance on this boy’s part concerns me because the lack of
understanding of autism by the greater community, i.e., a jury, coupled with a
slick-talking lawyer could result in these psychopaths getting merely a slap on
the wrist, believing the boy was somehow a willing participant in these sick
games.

After the girls were arrested, the boy’s mother asked for
his assurance he would stay away from these girls. His response, “I don’t
know.”

I’ve always thought non-verbal children like Ryan were the
only ones at risk. Now I know better.

I've heard about this several times...we had a mom testify last year for our autism insurance reform legislation that her child was taunted and his money stolen by children on the bus, yet he thought these children were his friends. I just spoke with a mom who has the same problem with her 12 year old son with Asperger's. He thinks the children bullying him are playing with him and are friends. When children are academically bright and function well in other areas, it is easy to forget how vulnerable they are socially--and how sick individuals will take advantage of them.